List of Famous people born on August 17th

Maria Luisa McKee is an American singer-songwriter. She is best known for her work with Lone Justice, her 1990 song "Show Me Heaven", and her song "If Love Is a Red Dress " from the film Pulp Fiction. She is the half-sister of Bryan MacLean, who was best known as a guitarist and vocalist in the band Love.

Kevin Rowland is a British singer-songwriter of Irish descent and frontman for the pop band Dexys Midnight Runners, which had several hits in the early 1980s, the most notable being "Geno" and "Come On Eileen", both of which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart.

Bede Evelyn Dominick Elwes was an English portrait painter whose much publicised elopement with an heiress in 1957 created an international scandal.

David Le Chaine Hollister is an American R&B singer who found fame during the 1990s as one quarter of the R&B quartet Blackstreet, before going on to have a solo career. Hollister is best known for his 2000 gold-certified album Chicago '85... The Movie, which included the singles "One Woman Man" and "Take Care of Home". He was also the featured on 2Pac's hit single "Brenda's Got a Baby".

Meshary Al-Arada was a singer and music composer from Kuwait.

Marvin Kirkland Cox is an American politician and retired educator. A Republican and a former high school teacher, he has served in the Virginia House of Delegates since 1990. He also served as the 55th Speaker of the House of Delegates. Cox served as House Majority Leader from 2010 to 2018 and House Majority Whip from 2004 to 2010.

Satyavathi Rathod, popularly known as Mangli, is an Indian playback singer, television anchor and actress. She is popular for her traditional Banjara attire. Her popularity on YouTube for her Telangana songs and performs at festival events in India and abroad. She is presently working with a Telugu-language web channel, Mic TV, featuring in hugely popular video songs on special occasions like Bathukamma, Bonalu, Sankranthi, Telangana Formation Day, Ugadhi, Sammakka Sarakka Jatara etc. She also participated on 2021 shivratri programme in isha.

David Ronald Jones is an English former footballer and manager most recently with EFL League Two side Hartlepool United.

Serge Moati is a French journalist, television presenter, film director and writer. He is the brother of Nine Moati, author of the novel Les Belles de Tunis. As is his sister, Serge Moati is a French citizen, with Tunisian-Jewish origins. He is the father of the actor Félix Moati.

Mohamed Abdelaziz was the 3rd Secretary General of the Polisario Front, from 1976, and the 1st President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic from 1982, until his death in 2016.